James Harvey McClintock
28 Feb 1864 - 10 May 1934
bornSacramento, California, USA
diedPhoenix, Arizona, USA
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BiographyWriter, teacher, and historian.Came to Tempe c1879.
Came to Arizona in 1879 to visit his brother, C. E. McClintock, who was editor of the Phoenix Herald.
He enrolled at the Territorial Normal School in 1886, and graduated in 1887. He lived with the Haydens and started publishing the Tempe News in a room on top of Charles Hayden's carpenter shop. Served on the Kyrene School District Governing Board in 1888. He was also the first teacher at Kyrene School in 1888.
He was a member of the Territorial Normal School Board of Education, 1889-1891, 1897, and 1901. He served in the Spanish-American War, enlisting in the First Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders) on 30 Apr 1898. He was wounded at Las Guasimas, Cuba, on 24 Jun 1898. He served as a Captain, in command of B Troop from 24 Jun to 15 Sep 1898. He later served as a Colonel of the 1st Infantry of Arizona. He was a member of the Normal School Alumni Association in the 1920s. He was also a member of the Old Settlers of Tempe Association. At the Association's 1920 picnic, he told of when he forded the Salt River at Hayden's Ferry in the winter of 1879, where a stake of a prehistoric dam marked the depth. He was an accomplished writer, newspaperman, and historian. He worked for the Los Angeles Times, and served as postmaster of Phoenix for eighteen years. He wrote a three-volume history of Arizona, and became the official Arizona State Historian.
He served as Secretary of the National Irrigation Congress, President of the Arizona Archeologial Commission, President of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Committee.
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BIO-McClintock
BIO-Hayden, Charles
Old Settlers Collection, THM
McClintock, Arizona, vol. III
Furlong, Story of Kyrene, p. 18, 24
Painter Scrapbook
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story,
pp. 86, 100, 123, 125, 162, 200
Charles Herner, The Arizona Rough Riders, pp. 238-239
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